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Thursday, May 5, 2011

May, Projects and Special.....

Can't believe May is upon us! School will be out soon and I can not wait!! I know I am a children's shop, but I have some really cute jewelry that would make a good graduation gift for some Seniors! Not to mention these for your Kindergarten graduate.....

And on to projects....

I do promise to go ahead and take pictures of Emily's room and post them this weekend. I have yet to find a rug for her room or Euro pillows for her bed. I have EXACTLY what I want in my mind and you know how that goes.....

I did visit the paint counter at Home Depot quite a bit over the last couple of weeks. I have great intentions on painting my kitchen island, and dare I say maybe even my cabinets! I absolutely HATE to paint cabinets and furniture. But, I do love a good transformation so that's what keeps me going :)

Ok, so I have lived with brown walls for 8 years, which I did love, but wanted to brighten up the room a bit. So I grabbed paint samples, enough that literally would be embarrassing to quote! Here is a terrible picture of what the color was before.....

Like I said from a previous posting, I painted my living room twice because the paint sample looked really really light, but as I rolled on the wall it started looking like this............

And then, you start playing the mind game..... I will just give it some time to dry and maybe it will dry lighter, or maybe I should start on another wall with more light and maybe it will look better......

well, it did look "better", but are people just supposed to ignore the seafoam/aqua adjacent wall??? So you play the game again..... just maybe if I squint a little then it will look right. I just hated waisting time and two gallons of paint....but I did waist the time, but the paint was put to good use and you will see why in a minute.

So back again to Home Depot, and this time I got MORE paint samples, came back home and then back up there to purchase this color...........

It is very light and I am very pleased with the color. As you can see, I came to a point where I asked myself if I would like to stay up a few more hours and paint the dining room OR see to it another time.....I guess you know which one I chose.

Then I decided the other paint color could go on the floor here..........

Some of you might have seen this up at Highland's Antique Mall over the last week......

Well, we are adding to it.....

A space became available and it got my wheels a turning.....

In this business and any business really, exposure is key, but with the economy like it is, advertising had to start being really creative on our end and the higher advertising expenses had to unfortunately take the back burner for awhile.

After doing some research it just made sense to set up a "shop" in a high foot traffic area to direct them to our Westgate location. And if we sold some things of course that would be a bonus! It also gave me a good excuse to move some unwanted pieces of furniture from my home and storage. And I hope to apply some of my projects that are constantly screaming in my mind to create them in real life for you to enjoy. Like the pom poms that EVERYONE asks about hanging in the shop....they will be for sale soon, along with those cute paper banners that are shown above.

Another adventure to our adventuresome life!

Before I say farewell to this post here is a special weekend coupon.......

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We are happy you visited our site today! We no longer have a store front, but because I couldn't completely part with the retail side of me, have set up "shop" in the Highland's Antique Mall, located on 84 West in Dothan, Alabama. Look for them on the web, or if you're local, stop on by and check out our inventory there!

About Me

Bellamia was a children's shop located in Dothan, Alabama. It was run for almost 8 years by a husband/wife team Tim and Katie Pilcher, that recently closed it's doors in October 2011. You can read about that here http://bellamiaachildrensshop.blogspot.com/2011/10/purposethe-close-of-season.html .
What was once an informational blog for the shop, has now been turned into a journal of our life and how God uses us daily. We still have a heart for community and for our children; Jillian age 12, Emily age 11 and Elizabeth age 8. Our two oldest attend a local Classical Christian School and we are currently taking on a new adventure Homeschooling our youngest. I have discovered my new passion of writing through this blog; and hope you enjoy reading as well as adding a little inspiration to your every day! You can contact me at kcpilcher@gmail.com